Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-10
KISSANE AGAIN.
Amasa Chaplin, Brother of Mrs. Cum
mings, C8ntrad!cts the Tiger-Like
Walking OF the Floor.
Rev. DR.. TsImage Lashes Deyilish Human
Nature in bounding Down Kissnne
or Rogers by Detectives
A SORE SPOT.

SORE SPOT.
CHICAGO, ILL, April 9.-The News
this morning says the effort to identify
W. K. Rogers, now rich citizen Of So
rora, CAL, as W. W. Kissane, opens up
what proves to be very old and painful
sore. Amasa, Chaplin, for twenty-eight
wears resident Of Chicago, and for tbc
last sixteen years connected With SEX
Scwhab & Co., is a brother of the wife
of Captain Cummings, who cut consid-
cradle figure in the life CT Sidney c. Bur
ton, according to BurtOD's account and
th&t of his daughter, Mrs. Bowman, who
is now striving to locate kls5ane. Mr..
Chaplin said to reporter Gas stated IN
the dispatches IN the papers to-day, was
one of the persons who was arrested TOR
the burning of the Martha Washington,
and the trial WAS 81 Columbus, ONO.
Our lawyers at that time were so well
satisfied there had been no conspiracy
that they were disposed not to attempt
to make q case. We were all tried and
honOrably acquitted. Burton did not
produce q scintills Of evidence against
US. He was working in the interest OF
the insurance companies, and after he
had begun the prosecution he tried des-
perately hard to convict US. / simply re-
garded him as mOnOmaniac. After the
trial, about one year | think 1t was, ne
was indicted for perjury, and when he
died he was under the surveillance OF the
authorities. As to Captain Cummings l
did not know him till 1850, and after he
had been married to my sister some TWO
wears. That statement about her going
down on the Rio GrandG AID putting a
pistol to his head and compelling
him to marry her is untrue. Cum
mipgs was a sutler in the Mexican war,
and he and my sister were married
st New Orleans. l think it was III 1913.
Mrs. Cummings has been dead fourteen
or fifteen years. She lived here in chi
cagO six or seven years and had quite
circle of acquaintance here who knew
that she was not u woman to W9lk the
floor in q rage, as Barton said, and In
timidate the stranger with her tia-hlng
eyes by saying she could hit quarter OF
dollar across the room with pistol. ]"
81 regret the opening OF this old sore"
continued Mr. Chaplin. "We are all OF US
honorably acquitted Of q crime charged
thirty-fOur years ago. l lived 10 Cincln-
natl eight years after the trial and
was respected citizen. Here
are my children grown up who have
known nothing of this, and it is pretty
hard on an old man like me to have the
matter brought before them now. With
ourselves honorably acquitted and our
prosecutor, Burton, dying under indict-
ment for perjury, don't see why the
press wants to take up the story of Bur
IONS daughter, Mrs Bowman, anu
gpraad it over the country. l should
Judge from the description that this man
| Rogers, is Kissane. | have not known
where ne was since l left Cincinnati IN
1858. Amasa Chaplin is siXty-six years
old.
TALMAGE ON KIssANE.
NEW YORK, April 9.-Rev. DR.. Talmage
talked of the Kissane case to the people
who went to hear his usual Friday lee
| ture last night. He said: ''TO what com
plete devilishness Of pursuit human ma
| ture NAV consent, has this week and last
week been illustrated. Thirty-three years
! ago man then called Kissane, now
called Rogers, committed great crime.
! For thirty-three years he has been al
! honOred and good citizen. After he estaO-
! lished himself II righteousness, and has
around him wife and worthy sons and
daughters, detectives 60 to work and eX-
| pose the sins which had for three decades
! been buried. For no other purposes eX-
cent those of revenge and blackman his
| old Cast-Off life IS eXhumed. HOUNDS are
baying at him from all cities. Common
fairness would say that after
| thirtY-three years Of right-dOlng
all previous wrong-doiDgs ought to be
/ forgiven. If ell the reputable Christian
people of America were now GrTalgued
and punished for the wrong they did
thfrtv-three years ago, there Is hardly a
social circle or church membership that
would not be rent asuuder with tragedy
MANY whose early life was debauch and
an abomination have afterwards gone to
the front in usefulness. l say thirty
three years OF honesty and righteousness
ought in any fair minded community tc
give man release from all review Of rea
iniouities. "But no." says human devil
ishness, "dOwn with Kissane forever
and kill his wife and blast his children
and let thirty-three years Of integrity bt
overwhelmed hy what went before
Jean Vatican of Victor HugO's immorta
romance. was by many supposed TO be 81
impossibility. Jean Vatican having bro
ken WlLuOW grass W SCI VI eau Az ~
starving children, afterwards rises TO 81
the heights of responsibility and for man
wears demonstrates the very nobility Q
character. But after nearly lifetime ha
} passed that early wrong gets on MS trac
and chases him to ruin. Behold the Jea
Vatican of romance translated in real III
in this last quarter Of g century suppose
t to be Christian, and seeing what height
= Ami "a
and bitterness and malice and reverg
and diabollsm human heart can rang
and reveal. Surely 1t required the ma'
sacre of calvary to depict the enormll
, OF the human heart when once let loose
Use Red Star Co0g1 Cure and yor
l sIumbers will be refreshed; No opiate